Mark P

Falmouth (Cornwall) harbour. #BlueSkyArtShow #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLForLines #ClassicMono (with a hint of blue) #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #MicroFourThirds

Stunning stage adaptation of The Railway Children at @worthvalley.bsky.social as part of the @bradford2025.co.uk year of culture. This is the scene where the rail disaster is averted. Brilliant immersive theatre in the round. A 10/10 performance. Fabulous afternoon.

Children’s Window reflected in the font and aspects of the cathedral reflected in the matching polished altar. Salisbury Cathedral. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekGforGlass

Spent a wonderful evening in the #Perth museum here in Bonnie #Scotland this evening, sampling whiskies from the #Macbeth collection - linked to a fab exhibition about Macbeth (the real person) and that of Shakespearean fame. Stunning - particularly the #Clyneslish, the #BenNevis & the #Laphroaig!

Tower ceiling, Wimborne Minster. #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography #omsystem #ArtFilters #BForBlue

Hurst Castle/Keyhaven Lake at the entrance of the Solent and the marina at Christchurch Harbour, just along the coast. #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography #omsystem #ArtFilters #BForBlue l

Ten writers by whom I've read more than five books (again, in no particular order): 1. Iain (M) Banks 2. E. Annie Prouxl 3. John le Carre 4. Graham Greene 5. Muriel Spark 6. Terry Pratchett 7. J R R Tolkien 8. Joanne Harris 9. Len Deighton 10. Lionel Shriver

A splash of colour #Carlisle #Photography #art #PhotographersUnited #BlueSkyArtShow #OMSystem #MicroFourThirds

#BlueSkyMonday #AllMetalMonday More metal glazing bars. National Museum of Scotland #AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBars

#BlueSkyMonday #AllMetalMonday Metal glazing bars. @n-t-s.bsky.social Threave House & Gardens (Dumfriesshire) #AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBars

In the garden of @n-t-s.bsky.social Broughton House in Kirkcudbright, home of artist EA Hornel, one of the Glasgow Boys. #GlasgowBoys #OM5 #MicroFourThirds #stunday

The new red bridge at @n-t-s.bsky.social Threave House & Gardens. #OM5 #MicroFourThirds #stunday

Spent today mooching up and down the @worthvalley.bsky.social KWVR heritage line, complete with a ploughman’s lunch version of afternoon tea in a Pullman carriage steaming to/fro. Wonderful day. That, and messing about with the art filters on my OM-5!

Flowers. Sort of. Mesmerising in a slight breeze. #FlowersOfBluesky #StainlessSteel #Articulated

Reflections in Brass for #AlphabetChallenge #WeekYforYellow (well, yellowish). #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography #microfourthirds #om5

With @thecpc.ac.uk colleagues at the #BlackCountryLivingMuseum in the West Midland for our annual summer catch up. Always wonderful to see folk face to face.

Aspects of tonight’s Whit Friday #BrassBand contests across Tameside & Saddleworth this evening. From the Denton contest. @bbe.org.uk

When your diet no longer permits a glass of OP … but there’s nothing stopping the consumption of 40+% proof … why not! #OldPeculier #Distilled

There’s Chicken Caesar salad, and then there’s Betty’s of Harrogate Chicken Caesar salad 😀. #SaladsOfBluesky #RHSHarlowCarr

Wave form bench seat. #Photography #Monochrome #MinimalMonday

Does what it says in the tin. #StainedGlassSunday #Funicular

William Morris inspired stained glass panels. Four of a number currently on display at Ripon Cathedral, Yorkshire. #StainedGlassSunday #StunDay

West End, Edinburgh. #Scape

Olympus Pen EP7 with 12-42 pancake lens. Ormesby Hall grounds, Teesside. #StunDay #Photography #MicroFourThirds.

Typical Victorians. No forward planning for the need of a 21st century photographer for symmetry. Funicular building not in line with pier building 🤣. Saltburn by the Sea, North Yorkshire.

Rievaulx Abbey, North Yorkshire, on Saturday. Fine weather, and super Monk’s Pottage in the visitor centre cafe.

Inspired by @tracybphotos.bsky.social to revisit less recent photos, here’s a couple from 2022. Aspects of Rochdale bus station and Number One Riverside (council offices & library). Taken on my old Nikon DSLR before I discovered micro four thirds. #Architecture #Urban #ClassicMono

The Church of St Ann, Manchester City centre. Perfect Friday morning. #Photography #Urban #StreetPhotography #Architecture

My cousins have discovered an ancestral link to the founding father of the Cooperative movement, Robert Owen, through their father, not my blood relative. Duly dispatched to locate his statue (outside the Coop Bank, Manchester). No indication on/around the statue of why it is there or who he was.

Churchyard and towpath - on a jaunt into the village and back.

If this comes to a town/city near you, go … and don’t choose the cheap seats 😀. If you’re in Edinburgh at the moment, it’s at the Playhouse.

Edinburgh rooftops … as viewed from the roof terrace of the National Museum of Scotland. In order, St Giles Cathedral (Royal Mile), Bank of Scotland - ‘Museum on the Mound’, University of Edinburgh’s ‘William Robertson Wing’, and can’t place the fourth!

More ‘above the crowds’ at the National Museum of Scotland (Edinburgh).

Above the crowds at the National Museum in Edinburgh.

Aspects of Dean Castle (Kilmarnock).

Barony ‘A’ Frame. Listed mining structure, Ayrshire.

Aspects of Dumfries House, Ayrshire. Owned by the King Charles Charitable Foundation. Spectacular grounds. Worth a visit.

Burrell Collection in Glasgow is housed in a building as fascinating as the collection itself.

When books start to get a bit too personal 😆

Culzean Castle, Ayrshire. Home of the Kennedy family through the ages, including a former sea captain who fled the US, giving up No.1 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington. Wonder what happened to that property 🤣.

Brodsworth Hall (in the trees). Spring flowers in the grounds. #BlueSkyArtShow #Peaceful #OMSystem #M43

From my walk across Manchester (Victoria to Spinningfields). A mix of the old and the new. Sometimes you need to pause on a familiar route, to appreciate the everyday.

Spring has not yet sprung at our station 😀

Sunrise over Littleborough and the south Pennines this morning on the walk to the train. I was not expecting it being chilly this morning. I was wrong!

York Minster, this evening. Including a view looking the other way!

Battersea Power Station. Straight out of the iPhone. Down in the smoke for an education conference. Apparently I’m an expert, if the panel I’m on, is to be believed 😀